Ernest backer



(No Model.)

B. BAGHER.

INTERNAL BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 299,714. Patented June 3, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST AeHEEjoE FINDLAY, oHIo, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF To vINoENT H. oooNs, o sAME PLAoE.

INTERNAL BgOTTLE-STOPPE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,714, dated June 3, 1884.

.qiplieation filed December 8, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEsT BAOHER, a citizen of. the United States, residing at Findlay, in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio,

have invented certainnew and useful Improvements inInternal Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which'- I Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a modified view, of the invention. 7

This invention has relation to internal bottlestoppers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as.wil1 1 be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

Heretofore in this class of bottle-stoppers the bail has been made without sufficient spring at the sides, or it has been hinged to the valve, which renders it difficult to keep it clean, or the spring has been all on one side, or it has had a bow connected to a central stem to form the bail, which not only weakens the bail, but requires a hook or bench of special construc- 2 tion to bottle with. My object is to provide an internal bottle-stopper that will have a bow with equal pressure on the sides of the neck of the bottle, and provides the necessary strength when the hook pulls it up in bottling, 0 and wherein the samebottling bench and hook that is ordinarily employed may be used.

- Referring by letter to the accompanying drawingsm. designates the neck of the bottle; I), the rubber valve of the stopper between 3 5 the metal washers c d, from which the Y- shaped stem 6 rises. The arms of the Y are looped around a staple-shaped spring-bow, f,

which has its arms 9 g curved inwardly, then outwardly, and again inwardly, so that they may be compressed within the neck of the bot- 4o tle either to hold the stopper open or closed, as may be desired.

As a modification of the stopper, I may solder the bow to a triangular-shaped stem, as shown in Fig. 2; but I prefer the Y-shaped stem and the spring-bow adapted to swing in. the eyes or loops at the ends of the arms of the Y-stein. This construction makes'a strong and serviceable bottle-stopper. It possesses a readily-yielding spring-bow, and may be used with the ordinary bottling bench and hook.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' 1. In an internal bottle-stopper, the combi- 5 5' ERNEST BAOHER.

\Vitnesses:

TOM E. FRAZER, JOHN POE. 

